Teachers On Strike

January 17, 1986

KINGSTON, JAMAICA — Teachers are on strike, demanding higher wages. They have not had a pay raise since 1983, and the Jamaican dollar is now worth about a third of what it was then. Public Service Minister Errol Anderson told Parliament that the government would have to allocate ''nearly half of the funds for public sector salaries'' to the teachers to raise their wages by the amount they are demanding. On Wednesday about 500 students demonstrated outside the Education Ministry in support of the teachers, yelling ''we want to learn'' and ''teachers want a fair share.''